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...And Andreas Gursky’s panoramas of Siemens factories in the 1990s are heralded in the aerial view of the massive assembly line “Employees’ Cars at Ford Factory”, photographed by Robert Smith for a commercial...
...She cites key moments such as the Scull sale of 1973, when the taxi cab entrepreneur Robert Scull sold more than 50 works by artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns at Sotheby Parke-Bernet auction...
...And I think that’s maybe why I have an affinity to the Bechers [the work of the German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher], because they were talked about as conceptualists but what was the concept?...
...If his earliest work took its cue from his teacher, Lisette Model, and others of the New York school, he now followed in the tyre tracks of Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand, who, criss-crossing the country...
...This is where she discovered the photographs of Robert Frank and Walker Evans. Later she would follow American conceptual land artists such as Michael Heizer and Walter de Maria....
...Just as Karl Blossfeldt found awe in the endless variety of plants, the Bechers saw the beauty in the archaeology of production....
...So Cartier-Bresson might have remained, had he not met irrepressible war photographer Robert Capa. “Watch out for labels,” Capa advised....
...A wealth of material here could have fleshed out this account, even though key staging posts – Bill Brandt, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky – are inexplicably, ludicrously, omitted....
...Four men, David Johnson, Sir Robert Ogden, J.P. McManus and Trevor Hemmings have each laid out a fortune trying to win the race....
...Instead I see them as groups of works related to areas that interest me: Roman antiquities; minimalist sculptures and drawings (Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Bob Law, Robert Ryman, Robert Mangold)....
...Badgers, whose name is thought to stem from bêcher, meaning “to dig” in French, have a wise, determined image in the UK....
...For all the fearsome reputation of such obstacles as Becher’s Brook and The Chair, the first fence regularly claims the most fallers. Last year five of the 40-strong field exited the race there....
...Last year Clan Royal was leading at Becher’s second time around when a loose horse got in his way....
...Adams was included along with a crowd of photo-graphers whose reputation has never really dipped since: Bernd and Hilla Becher, Stephen Shore, Nicholas Nixon and Lewis Baltz....
...In the late 1960s, the land artist Robert Smithson took a tour of the “monuments” of his native suburb of Passaic, New Jersey....
...Robert Frank’s journeys across America in the 1950s have a visual affinity with the prose snapshots of the Beat generation; W....
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